Quotes from The Power of a Praying Wife

“Lord, I pray that my husband will be strong in the Lord and put on the whole armor of God, so he can stand against the enemy every day. Enable him to take up the shield of faith, helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“I Don’t Even Like Him—How Can I Pray for Him? Have you ever been so mad at your husband that the last thing you wanted to do was pray for him? So have I. It’s hard to pray for someone when you’re angry or he’s hurt you. But that’s exactly what God wants us to do. If He asks us to pray for our enemies, how much more should we be praying for the person with whom we have become one and are supposed to love? But how do we get past the unforgiveness and critical attitude? The first thing to do is be completely honest with God. In order to break down the walls in our hearts and smash the barriers that stop communication, we have to be totally up-front with the Lord about our feelings. We don’t have to “pretty it up” for Him. He already knows the truth. He just wants to see if we’re willing to admit it and confess it as disobedience to His ways. If so, He”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“A wife’s prayers for her husband have a far greater effect on him than anyone else’s, even his mother’s. (Sorry, Mom.)”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“Lord, I pray that You would enable (husband’s name) to let go of his past completely. Deliver him from any hold it has on him. Help him to put off his former conduct and habitual ways of thinking about it and be renewed in his mind (Ephesians 4:22-23). Enlarge his understanding to know that You make all things new (Revelation 21:5). Show him a fresh, Holy Spirit–inspired way of relating to negative things that have happened. Give him the mind of Christ so that he can clearly discern Your voice from the voices of the past. When he hears those old voices, enable him to rise up and shut them down with the truth of Your Word. Where he has formerly experienced rejection or pain, I pray he not allow them to color what he sees and hears now. Pour forgiveness into his heart so that bitterness, resentment, revenge, and unforgiveness will have no place there. May he regard the past as only a history lesson and not a guide for his daily life. Wherever his past has become an unpleasant memory, I pray You would redeem it and bring life out of it. Bind up his wounds (Psalm 147:3). Restore his soul (Psalm 23:3). Help him to release the past so that he will not live in it, but learn from it, break out of”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness.”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“But God considers the sins of unforgiveness, anger, hatred, self-pity, lovelessness, and revenge to be just as bad as any others.”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“Cast your burden on the LORD, and He shall sustain you;”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“Accept your husband the way he is and pray for him to grow. Then when change happens, it will be because God has worked it in him and it will be lasting. “My soul, wait silently for God alone, for my expectation is from Him” (Psalm 62:5). Your greatest expectations must be from God, not your husband.”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“Whatever God has called your husband to be or do, He has also called you to support it and be part of it, if in no other way than to pray, encourage, and help in whatever way possible.”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you. 2 KINGS 20:5”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“Whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. 1 JOHN 2:5-6”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“The way a man relates to his dad will often affect how he relates to his Father God.”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you. 2 KINGS 20:5”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“Who can find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far above rubies. The heart of her husband safely trusts her; so he will have no lack of gain. She does him good and not evil all the days of her life. PROVERBS 31:10-12”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“Ayúdalo a entender que “nuestra lucha no es contra seres humanos, sino contra poderes, contra autoridades, contra potestades que dominan este mundo de tinieblas, contra fuerzas espirituales malignas en las regiones celestiales” (Efesios 6:12). Oro para que esté fuerte en el Señor y que se ponga toda la armadura de Dios, para que pueda hacer frente a las artimañas del diablo en el día malo. Ayúdalo a ceñir sus lomos con el cinturón de la verdad y protegerse con la coraza de justicia, calzados sus pies con la disposición de proclamar el evangelio de la paz. Ayúdalo a tomar el escudo de la fe, con el cual pueda apagar todas las flechas encendidas del maligno. Oro para que tome el yelmo de la salvación, y la espada del Espíritu, la cual es la Palabra de Dios, orando siempre en el Espíritu con toda oración y súplica, vigilando y manteniéndose”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“Ayúdalo a entender que “nuestra lucha no es contra seres humanos, sino contra poderes, contra autoridades, contra potestades que dominan este mundo de tinieblas, contra fuerzas espirituales malignas en las regiones celestiales” (Efesios 6:12). Oro para que esté fuerte en el Señor y que se ponga toda la armadura de Dios, para que pueda hacer frente a las artimañas del diablo en el día malo. Ayúdalo a ceñir sus lomos con el cinturón de la verdad y protegerse con la coraza de justicia, calzados sus pies con la disposición de proclamar el evangelio de la paz. Ayúdalo a tomar el escudo de la fe, con el cual pueda apagar todas las flechas encendidas del maligno. Oro para que tome el yelmo de la salvación, y la espada del Espíritu, la cual es la Palabra de Dios, orando siempre en el Espíritu con toda oración y súplica, vigilando y manteniéndose fuerte hasta el fin (Efesios 6:13-18).”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“A wise man will hear and increase learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel. PROVERBS 1:5”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“When you pray, God reveals anything in your personality that is resistant to His order of things.”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“The first opportunity for this came right away. I had started a new weekly women”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“To be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. ROMANS 8:6”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“Each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that. 1 CORINTHIANS 7:7”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“Many difficult things that happen in a marriage relationship are actually part of the enemy’s plan set up for its demise.”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“I pray that we will desire each other and no one else. Show me how to make myself attractive and desirable to him and be the kind of partner he needs.”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“In every broken marriage, there is at least one person whose heart is hard against God.”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“God is always waiting for us to come to Him, so we can be set free from anything that keeps us from becoming more like Him. To the children of Israel in bondage in Egypt, God said He saw their oppression, heard their cry, and knew their sorrows, so He came to deliver them (Exodus 3:7-8). Know that He will do the same for you.”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“If your husband’s self-image needs a makeover, be patient. The answers don’t come overnight when a long-held pattern of thinking has to be broken. But you can appropriate the power of God to fight the enemy that feeds him familiar lies, so your husband can be free to hear His truth.

Remember that God will reveal glimpses of the key to breaking any of your husband’s bad habits. As you pray for your husband’s self-image, He will show you how to pray.”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“Break any ties—good or bad, emotional or spiritual—with any former relationships. You can’t move forward into the future if you have a foot stuck in the past.”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“A husband can hurt your feelings, be inconsiderate, uncaring, abusive, irritating, or negligent. He can say or do things that pierce your heart like a sliver. And every time you start to pray for him, you find the sliver festering. It’s obvious you can’t give yourself to praying the way God wants you to until you are rid of it.”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“that I don’t have what it takes to be one without Your help. Take my selfishness,”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

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